Solution Set

Storage is a big ticket item that often only gets purchased every three to five years. Get best practice buyer's advise that leverages the purchasing experience of your IT peers.

Video

With e-commerce, your philosophy should be "Build a business, not a Website." First and foremost, an e-commerce Website is a business; the Website itself is simply the delivery channel. To truly be effective with your e-commerce site you must...

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Multi-site enterprises are commonly managing environments with different types of voice and data connectivity, often sourced from multiple service providers. This solution set will help IT leaders perform a full telecom inventory that can be...

Tool

Multi-site enterprises are commonly managing environments with different types of voice and data connectivity, often sourced from multiple service providers. Use this tool to inventory telecom services, physical assets, monthly invoices, as well...

Video

This video provides an overview of how to optimize an existing Business Intelligence (BI) solution. Optimizing your BI program means providing better information to more users at a lower cost of delivery, in other words, extending capabilities...

Solution Set

This solution set will teach IT managers how to reduce the costs of BI fragmentation, build a Business Intelligence Competency Center (BICC) to manage the BI strategy, and standardize the BI solution.

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Fine-tuning an existing Business Intelligence (BI) solution is crucial for realizing business value. Optimizing your BI program means providing better information to more users at a lower cost of delivery, in other words, extending capabilities...

Stretch your resource dollar by optimizing your IT processes and functions. Learn how with our clear advice and tools.

(18-Dec-09) Carlos Rosa’s IT infrastructure had everything he needed, and then some. But, he realized, the “and then some” was probably too much. Mahwah Township Public Schools’ eight-year-old network was top of the line. “That comes at a...

Optimizing application delivery across the WAN is becoming critical for multi-site enterprises seeking to consolidate and centralize IT resources. Enterprises looking to improve application delivery across the WAN should consider the dual...

Cisco was a late entrant into the WAN optimization market, but its dominant position in the network infrastructure space has allowed it to quickly pick up significant market share. With a solid line of appliances and a network module for the...

The Citrix Branch Repeater delivers traditional WAN optimization as well as accelerated virtual application (XenApp) performance, and a Windows Server in a single box. Medium to large enterprises with a number of distributed locations should...

As the enterprise WAN is increasingly relied upon to deliver business critical data and applications, optimal performance of the network becomes a high priority. Enterprises focusing on large scale data center consolidation, data replication,...

Vendors that have continued to invest in WAN optimization technology and effectively advanced the benefits of these products are clear market leaders, while those that have not are followers. The F5 WANJet product line now falls into the latter...

Riverbed Technology shows up on more WAN optimization shortlists than any other vendor. Riverbed has done a very good job raising awareness of the benefits of WAN optimization for multi-site enterprises, but marketing is not its only strength....

WAN optimization vendors have stepped up to the plate to differentiate themselves in a market space that was heading towards commoditization. Competing vendors have taken the initiative to narrow their target markets and design devices that are...

Video

Email has become an essential service within the IT portfolio. To date, however, there has been a dearth of benchmarks for determining where to target your total monthly spend per user. This videocast will provide guidance for how to optimize...

Video

Vendor management plays a critical role in any network related cost reduction efforts. Join this videocast for information and advice on how to reduce your network spend. This videocast covers various topics, including Cisco substitutes, the...

(27-Aug-09) For a $5.5 billion agricultural cooperative whose 42,000 farmers work cohesively across 19 countries to supply food and farming services, Lantmännen's IT infrastructure was surprisingly unwieldy. "Because we've been around since...

Podcast

9:27 minutes - Listen to this podcast for guidance on managing application development demand and to discover ways to optimize the actual development process.

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Info-Tech sees increased interest in energy measurement solutions for data centers and end-user infrastructure. However, such solutions are unlikely to make attractive projects unless IT can roughly quantify the true cost of electricity as...

In order to make sense of the increasing amount of hype surrounding green IT, small enterprises need to understand what initiatives exist and which are most appropriate for adoption. It doesn't take a tree-hugger to be green. Find out what other...

Impact Research

Many help desks today are missing out on valuable cost savings opportunities. This report will help identify the gap between your current and optimized state to reduce costs, improve end user satisfaction and help desk efficiency through...

When enterprises encounter unacceptable e-mail client performance, finding the root cause can present a challenge. This challenge is complicated when provisioning e-mail to a distributed workforce from a handful of regional or global locations....